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A preeminent Renaissance scholar illuminates early modern encounters with books, in which literature became a portal to self-awareness and miraculous communion between author and reader. The experience of reading is often presented as personal and transformative--a journey of...

A deeply personal yet broadly relevant exploration of the ephemeral life of the classic in art, from the eighteenth century to our own day

A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud   "A compellingly readable and intelligent book. . . . Both authors write with impressive energy."--Rowan Williams, New Statesman  

Demystifying the "Poet Laureate of Depression" Pleasure-loving, sarcastic, stubborn, determined, erotic, deeply sad--Jane Kenyon's complexity and contradictions found expression in luminous poems that continue to attract a passionate following. Dana Greene draws on a wealth of personal...

A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of language. The Language Animal, Charles Taylor's 2016 account of human linguistic capacity, was a revelation, toppling...

The remarkable story of seven contemporary Russian-language poets whose experimental work anchors a thriving dissident artistic movement opposed to both Putin's regime and Western liberalism. What does leftist art look like in the wake of state socialism? In recent years,...

Writing Time shows how serial literature based in journals and anthologies shaped the awareness of time at a transformative moment in the European literary and political landscapes. Sean Franzel explores how German-speaking authors and editors "write time" both by writing...

A collection of highlights from Mary Ann Caws's long, highly distinguished career writing about literature, art, and modernism.   Throughout her long, highly distinguished career writing about literature and art, Mary Ann Caws has excavated, illuminated, and...